I’m guessing the list-style-image is taller than the height of the li without the image and the text is baseline aligned with this image. Vertical-align doesn’t seem to work so I’m lost (without extra markup that is).

just wanted to know if theres any method to display a couple of backgrounds in an li
the thing is that the image bullet (converted to background)
now i want that on hover it display a blue bar of selection in background without removing the bullet background

currently i am achieving it through another background which i photoshoped (the bullet image and bar image together) and am changing the bg image on hover

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